Checklist France: Corsica; scientific names
Below is a checklist of the 48 dragonfly and damselfly species for the area France: Corsica. It's based on Dijkstra, Schröter & Lewington's Field Guide to the Dragonflies and Damselflies of Britain and Europe (2020), on the Atlas of the European Dragonflies and Damselflies (Boudot & Kalkman (eds.), 2015), and - in a handful of cases - on new area records. Please click here if you would like to see the list below with the French common names or the English common names.
The list below is sorted alphabetically on the species' scientific names. Clicking on a species name in the list allows you to then cycle through the entire checklist for the area France: Corsica by using the Previous (<==) and Next (==>) buttons at the bottom of each page. If you would prefer to see it sorted as per our overall checklist, please click here.
Note: if you believe a species is missing from the checklist below, please do email us at with the new information, together with the relevant source(s) and references. If we agree that the new information is indeed valid, we will update the checklist as soon as possible.
Please click on a species name below to see our 20 photographs of that species.
| # | Scientific name |
|---|
| 1 | Aeshna affinis Vander Linden, 1820   |
| 2 | Aeshna cyanea (Müller, 1764)  |
| 3 | Aeshna isoceles (Müller, 1767)  |
| 4 | Aeshna mixta Latreille, 1805  |
| 5 | Anax ephippiger (Burmeister, 1839)  |
| 6 | Anax imperator Leach, 1815  |
| 7 | Anax parthenope (Selys, 1839)  |
| 8 | Boyeria irene (Fonscolombe, 1838)  |
| 9 | Brachythemis impartita (Karsch, 1890)  |
| 10 | Brachytron pratense (Müller, 1764)  |
| 11 | Calopteryx haemorrhoidalis (Vander Linden, 1825)  |
| 12 | Calopteryx splendens (Harris, 1780)  |
| 13 | Calopteryx virgo (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
| 14 | Ceriagrion tenellum (de Villers, 1789)  |
| 15 | Chalcolestes parvidens (Artobolevsky, 1929)  |
| 16 | Chalcolestes viridis (Vander Linden, 1825)  |
| 17 | Coenagrion caerulescens (Fonscolombe, 1838)  |
| 18 | Coenagrion puella (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
| 19 | Coenagrion pulchellum (Vander Linden, 1825)  |
| 20 | Coenagrion scitulum (Rambur, 1842)  |
| 21 | Cordulegaster boltonii (Donovan, 1807)  |
| 22 | Crocothemis erythraea (Brullé, 1832)  |
| 23 | Enallagma cyathigerum (Charpentier, 1840)  |
| 24 | Erythromma lindenii (Selys, 1840)  |
| 25 | Erythromma viridulum (Charpentier, 1840)  |
| 26 | Ischnura genei (Rambur, 1842)  |
| 27 | Ischnura pumilio (Charpentier, 1825)  |
| 28 | Lestes barbarus (Fabricius, 1798)  |
| 29 | Lestes macrostigma (Eversmann, 1836)  |
| 30 | Lestes virens (Charpentier, 1825)  |
| 31 | Libellula depressa Linnaeus, 1758  |
| 32 | Libellula fulva Müller, 1764  |
| 33 | Libellula quadrimaculata Linnaeus, 1758  |
| 34 | Lindenia tetraphylla (Vander Linden, 1825)  |
| 35 | Orthetrum brunneum (Fonscolombe, 1837)  |
| 36 | Orthetrum cancellatum (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
| 37 | Orthetrum coerulescens (Fabricius, 1798)  |
| 38 | Orthetrum trinacria (Selys, 1841)  |
| 39 | Paragomphus genei (Selys, 1841)  |
| 40 | Selysiothemis nigra (Vander Linden, 1825)  |
| 41 | Somatochlora flavomaculata (Vander Linden, 1825)  |
| 42 | Somatochlora meridionalis Nielsen, 1935  |
| 43 | Sympecma fusca (Vander Linden, 1820)  |
| 44 | Sympetrum fonscolombii (Selys, 1840)  |
| 45 | Sympetrum meridionale (Selys, 1841)  |
| 46 | Sympetrum sanguineum (Müller, 1764)  |
| 47 | Sympetrum striolatum (Charpentier, 1840)  |
| 48 | Trithemis annulata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807)  |